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patchy

adjective

1 a stretch of patchy grass | their first aid teaching has been patchy:

uneven, bitty, varying, variable, variegated, dappled, mottled, speckled, multicoloured;

intermittent, fitful, occasional, fluctuating, sporadic, erratic, irregular, random;

informal peaky.

▷antonyms uniform, constant.

2 we have only patchy evidence:

fragmentary, deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, rudimentary, limited, sketchy.

▷antonyms complete, comprehensive.

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See blotchy.

patchy Oxford Dictionary of English